Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only dudes wear ties''). To satisfy his enormous appetite, he often takes hamburgers along in his golf bag to keep from "starving" during a match. When he won his first big-time tournament last winter, he gave his kid brother $5 to buy all the ice-cream sodas he could manage. Porky on the locker room: "It ain't no place for me. If you stick around, you have to drink too many of them Tom Collinses...
...Make-up Man Willis. To girls with buck teeth and freckles, to elderly ladies with grizzled hair, to buxom young things with fat red cheeks and curves too voluminous, he points out cosmetic errors, boldly proposes new hairdos, new foundations. Sample Willis ukase: "Using a rose-tan powder foundation cream will do a blending job. But it won't hide freckles. In order to hide your freckles we'd have to make you as dark as an Indian and all the sparkle would be gone out of your face." Mrs. Fitzgerald offers suggestions on clothes, occasionally recommends that...
From this lush new export market (where prices are $10 to $21.40 a ton over the domestic level) U. S. pulp makers are skimming the cream. But they do not consider it permanent. A break in the British blockade would release a tidal wave of low-cost Scandinavian pulp, force prices far below anything U. S. mills could meet. Already pulpmen have had reason to be leery of the Latin-American market. Last spring, after Norway's collapse, they were hounded by Latin-American purchasing agents. Suddenly the agents vanished. Nazi salesmen had promised them low-priced pulp deliveries...
...study was a barren room with uncovered floors and cream-colored walls hung only with a large map of Mexico. In its centre was a long wooden table stacked with books and manuscripts. Trotsky sat down there, began to read the manuscript his friend had brought. Jackson leaned over his shoulder. From under his coat, where he had hidden a pistol, a dagger and an Alpine pick, he chose the heaviest instrument. If he succeeded with this, he would make no sound, do his work with one quick blow...
Couple of months ago political-gossip Columnists Pearson & Allen were tapped by Williams Shaving Cream to serve as a summer fill-in for the True or False quiz program on NBC's blue network. Moderately successful in previous radio appearances (1935-36,1939-40), Pearson & Allen have this time gone to town. Although neither the amicable Pearson nor the pugnacious Allen has much of a voice, they have made their new show as lively as their news copy, have persuaded many a bigwig to appear with them on the air. Among their famous foils to date: William S. Knudsen...